The video is available on DVD, btw — get it at Amazon. The music works both with and without the visuals, but the visuals are quite amazing in their own right.

]]>By: Steve Laytonhttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3241
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:42:12 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3241Well Alan, I don’t know if it’ll be in your icon-list, as it’s pretty firmly in the minmalist/maximalist camp, all time and texture. It’s Einstein Glass, Reich, Adams, Andreissen; but also Coates and Branca, even whiffs of Feldman, Xenakis and Grisey. And yet it’s none of these; its own object, carving its own distinctive space. It’s a monument, in almost a physical sense.
]]>By: Eric Linhttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3238
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:06:18 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3238It’s cool
]]>By: Alan Theisenhttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3231
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:51:05 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3231I haven’t heard Decasia. What do you like about it?
]]>By: Alan Theisenhttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3230
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:50:21 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3230Nevermind me. I was just being grumpy.
]]>By: Steve Laytonhttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3229
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:34:20 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3229David Lang and Glenn Branca can get me to yawn sometimes (though in Branca’s case, maybe that’s just me trying to pop my ears…), but I’d never put Alvin Curran, Michael Gordon or Annie Gosfeld into the “post-interesting” category. Gordon especially, for composing what I think will end up becoming one of the iconic works of the early 21st century, Decasia.
]]>By: Alan Theisenhttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3228
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:44:33 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3228I agree, Rodney. But, then again, it looks like we’re the old guys around here.

Meh. “Beautiful”. “Ugly”. Can’t we move past these adjectives?

What kind of music is it? How about: “Post-interesting”?

]]>By: Rodney Listerhttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3221
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:17:48 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3221With all due respects to David Lang, I don’t like the post-ugly thing at all. (Not that I imagine my disapproval is anything that’s going to keep him up nights). I read in the program for John Adams’s Prom concert in London last summer something about his disappointment with the “aural ugliness” of Schoenberg’s music. I have to say I was startled by that idea, since it seems to me that most of Schoenberg’s music goes out of its way to be quite beautiful as sound (the two pieces that I think of that don’t are the wind quintet–which is just so timbrally undifferentiated and can leave you feeling like you’ve been hit over the head–and the Ode to Napolean–but I don’t like anything about that piece, so I may well be being prejudiced on that. In any case, I don’t see that it’s any uglier than, say…..well….
]]>By: Musicians Online » 13 Ways to Listen to Post-Ugly Musichttp://www.sequenza21.com/2007/03/13-ways-to-listen-to-post-ugly-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3219
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:54:51 +0000http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/315#comment-3219[…] Original post by Jerry Bowles and software by Elliott Back […]
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